Halter-grip.



N0. 638,995. Patented Dec. I2, I899.

G. A. STANTON.

HALTER GRIP.

(Application filed Sept. 8, 1899.)

(No mum.)

"Hill/[WI i I UNlTE GILBERT A. STANTON, OF NEYVGOMB, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONF- FOURTH TO GEORGE E.

TERRY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

HALTER- -GRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent No. 638,995, dated December 12, 1899.

Application filed September 8,1399. $erial No. 729,833. No model.)

To all whom it ntaty concern:

Be it known that I, GILBERT A. STANTON, of Newcomb,in the county of Essex and State of New York, have invented a new Improve-' ment in Rope or Strap Grips; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view; Fig. 2, a side View.

This invention relates to an improvement in halter-grips or grips for clothes-lines, harnmock-ropes, or other devices in which a strong grip is desirable and where it is desirable to easily and quickly disengage the rope or strap from the device, the object of the invention being to produce a device which embodies the desirable features above mentioned; and it consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

Preferably and as shown in the drawings,

the device will consist of a plate A, adapted to be secured to a wall, post, or other convenient means and provided at its upper end with an outwardly-extending flange B. To

tongue F, which is adapted to strike the plate A, as shown in the drawings, the inner end of the tongue extending upward between the sides of the grip. The strap or rope G to be secured is looped and the grip raised, so that the loop may be passed over the tongue F and then drawn downward into the jaws E, which securely grip it, and so that the greater the strain upon the rope or strap the more securely I it will be held. The principal object of the flange B is to prevent the grip proper from may be omitted and, if desired, the plate also, 5 5

the grip proper being secured to a wall or post by staple or screw-eye of ordinary construction.

In a device of this character the rope is as readily detached as attached by simply lifting the loop in the rope or strap and passing it over the end of the tongue. With a device of this character also knots are avoided, and in case of use as a halter-grip the possibility of the horse detaching its halter is avoided.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A rope or strap grip formed from a single strip of metal and comprising an eye, two V- shaped gripping-jaws, and a tongue extending upward between the sides of the grip and thence rearward, substantially as described.

2. A. rope or strap grip comprising an eye, two \I-shaped gripping-jaws and a tongue extending upward between thesides of the grip and thence rearward, and a plate provided at its upper end with a loop for engagement with the eye of the grip, substantially as described 3. A rope or strap grip comprising an eye,

two V-shaped jaws and an upwardly and rear- GILBERT A. STANTON.

Witnesses:

JAMES E. WALLIS, ISA R. BISSELL. 

